On February 3, 1964, nearly half a million of New York City’s black and Puerto Rican children were kept home from school. The boycott was part of a demand for the desegregation of New York City’s public schools. It was the largest civil rights action in United States history, and a plan was drafted to…
(JTA) — At least 14 male students at a Boston-area high school are accused of spraying a swastika and anti-gay slurs on the school building. The vandalism, using the spray from fire extinguishers at Arlington High School, occurred a week ago and was removed before school started for the day, the Boston CBS affiliate reported….
(JTA) — A swastika and the phrase “dirty Jew” was painted on the entrance to a Jewish elementary school in Paris. The graffiti appeared Monday at the Gustave Leven school in the French capital’s 16th district, the French anti-Semitism watchdog National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, reported. The school is a part of…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Students and alumni at a Quaker-run private school in Manhattan are rallying around a teacher who was let go after making a joking Nazi salute in his mathematics classroom. Ben Frisch, a teacher at Friends Seminary, was fired for saying “Heil Hitler!” while raising his arm to illustrate what in basic…
(JTA) — The mother of a 14-year-old Jewish girl killed in a shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, has a heartbreaking but powerful message for President Donald Trump. Alyssa Alhadeff was among the 17 people killed when a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon and began shooting. At…
Anguished Jewish parents reportedly gathered at a south Florida hotel awaiting word about teens missing after a deadly school shooting killed 17 people. Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Chabad Coral Springs told the Sun-Sentinel that he was tending to parents who “are in agony” after not hearing word from missing children a day after the massacre…
Jewish and Muslim religious leaders are criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio and his new free school lunch plan for not offering any kosher or halal options. “Thousands of children in our community and the Muslim community are left out of this initiative due to religious dietary restrictions,” the letter dated November 22 and signed by…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Few people know that there’s a high school in Warsaw that teaches Yiddish. In fact, it’s probably the only one in all of Europe that does. I know because I recently graduated from there and I was one of its Yiddish students. This isn’t a Jewish school….
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